Heteroqueer

Quick meaning: Heteroqueer is an adjective meaning (LGBTQ) Heterosexual and queer (e.g. due to transness).

Meaning

(LGBTQ) Heterosexual and queer (e.g. due to transness).

More Meanings

1. (of a woman) Heterosexual and having an affinity with gay men and/or the gay community.

Example Sentences

Roberta Mock presents Midler as a camp heteroqueer lady and reminds us of the fact that Michael Bronski described Midler as a “female female impersonator” (Bronski 1984: 107).

Deaf Chicano heteroqueer trans man Drago Renteria is an activist and writer who founded the National Deaf Queer Resource Center, an online information and resource website that has existed since 1995 and is run by volunteers.

See Mock (2003) and Zita (1992) for interesting pieces on male lesbians and heteroqueer ladies – individuals who are attracted to members of the opposite sex, but feel as though they “should” be members of the opposite sex with same-sex sexual desires.

In Day's more lighthearted take on Sidney's story in Isle of the Gulls, Pyrocles's friend Demetrius (Musidorus in the Arcadia) comments on the unlikelihood of this erotic heteroqueer triangle: “That the duke should doate upon thee for a woman, makes for our purpose, but that the dutches should be enamord on thee for a man, is preposteroous."

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